unicode in pre-beta

[Kevin Miller]

On 4/2/03 7:43 pm, Igor de Oliveira Couto <info at pixelmedia.com.au> wrote:

> I have been working on an
> Esperanto stack, a language which uses characters such as c+circumflex
> (c–), g+circumflex (g–), and u+breve (u˜) among others. All these have to
> be typed with the 'US Extended' keyboard layout in MacOS X (10.2).

Can I just confirm, these aren't unicode characters, and this problem
existed in 1.1.1?  This is something you need to script a library around.
 
> I believe the problem is that a lot of the 'internal' text routines in
> Revolution are actually handled by scripts, and transcript does not
> seem to REALLY be able to handle Unicode. Try this: type a sentence
> which uses these 'funny' international characters which can only be
> typed with the US Extended keyboard. Then, in the text section of the
> inspector, try CHANGING THE CASE (to something like "Title Case"). You
> will notice that not only do your international characters disappear,
> but also that you will get UppeRcase letters right in the middle of
> your words - where the international characters once were...

This doesn't sound like it is related to unicode here - the change case
function is designed only to work with English at this time.  Unfortunately
we haven't got any plans to change that in time for 2.0, this is something
you can script your way around easily.

Kind regards,

Kevin

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